America Apologizes

In a flurry of self loathing these past few days the Obama administration did its level best to both take the blame for China's carbon emissions while also apologizing to India for America's contribution to global pollution.

Meanwhile no one seems to notice that all of this evil perpetrated by the American consumer has virtually stamped out starvation, pestilence, and poverty, not only in our own little America, but in many other areas across the globe--most notably China and India.

So Clinton and Locke have headed abroad to pay tribute to those countries we have victimized at the altar of our consumerism. Those millions who died of poverty, starvation and disease before the American experiment began are but a fleeting memory. There isn't much point in apologizing for any of that.